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Sketch Of The Dead

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PJ's Home!!!

Great Day!!

So Cool

Racist Computers!?!?!

HP has got some explaining to do

If They Stop Singing To Me...

Taken from http://www.nataliedarbeloff.com/god_dawkins.html

I like this. Never stop singing.

Bob Dylan Sure Can Throw A Party

Playing Around on GarageBand (Should Probably Be Illegal)

Sorry Bob!

Might be the Funniest Video of All Time!!

Bob Dylan Wrote Every Popular Song Released in the Past 35 Years

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

PJ Comes Home Tomorrow!!!!

If this scene was actually in the movie I might be tempted

HAHAHAHAHAHA! (Thanks Tod)

Nov. 27th: National Day of Listening

Story Corps Rocks!

http://www.nationaldayoflistening.org/

I think I might be in love...

Violent girls are sexy

Something To Think About

Awesome!

J Want This! HA!

Geek-tastic!!!

For more awesome(?) science videos go to http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/sciencemusic/

I love being a nerd.

"The cosmos is within us" -Carl Sagan

http://www.symphonyofscience.com./

What the Hell??

I reluctantly admit to being impressed

White People Can be Awesome Too! HAHAHAHA!!

I am in love with people who make stuff!

Spider-cloth!!!

"A rare textile made from the silk of more than a million wild spiders goes on display today at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City."


"To produce this unique golden cloth, 70 people spent four years collecting golden orb spiders from telephone poles in Madagascar, while another dozen workers carefully extracted about 80 feet of silk filament from each of the arachnids. The resulting 11-foot by 4-foot textile is the only large piece of cloth made from natural spider silk existing in the world today." --Taken from Wired.com http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/spider-silk/

Music Made For Monkeys!! Awesome!!

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112444869

New Libcast for the Library

We made this podcast as part of our orientation program for new students. We designed it to provide the first of many clues in a "Clue"-style scavenger hunt game in the Library. Hopefully it will help students get to know the library a little better.

So Sexy... J Want Now

Україна має талант

So Evil... I love it!

P.S. Also stolen from Todd's excellent blog: http://tdamcbigity.blogspot.com/

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Thanks Todd! You're a mensch!

Music and The Brain

This is so cool!

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.

Absolutely Terrified

This is me at Open Mic Night at Muse Music in Provo. Overall one of the worst 5 minutes of my life. I look forward to doing it again next week. (Thanks to Steph for the pic)

Our Closest Star

With thanks to NASA for the video, and Geoff Manaugh for the audio, Main's Haloform III.

Proof That We Need Dance in Our Rituals

I am embarrassed to say -- that I unreservedly love this

Happy Birthday to April Todd and Steph Rapp!!

Venting

I am so frustrated with national politics right now. I cannot believe that we have chosen to live with a system that rewards such colossal stupidity on one side and such unapologetic evil on the other. I guess we've made our bed...

Some poetry I've been working on

Before The Word

Even before the word
Expanse
Silence brooding upon those first amniotic waters
enfolding us like a shroud
like swaddling bands
hands
covering us as we nakedly came
and went

Silence
Starlight and shadow
as yet uncontested by fire, arc, or book
Specters of things unsafely hidden
in darkness
All is fear and awe and death
and meaning

Then the word
that first falling rebellion
against a silence that was,
is, God
Even still
silence claimed its due
Wiry frightened starving bodies
unwillingly filled to overflowing
by the not-word
Brightly burning things
fueled by
that which was not themselves

Then enlightenment
cacophony and din
The din of modernity
Did I say din?
Ah djinn! The djinn of modernity
Answers to questions
all wishes commanded
All is fatness milk and honey
unending undying unsating
Till we sit
old. fat. empty.
Whited sepulchers lacking even
the bones of dead men

It was not always thus
Return to us
We will lay down that sounding brass
these tinkling symbols
Swaddle and cover us once more

I would resign to choking silence
if only I could again be filled

Voice-Over

A few months ago I was volunteered by my employer to help the UALC with some voice-work. This is the finished product.

Assignments for class

Glee Club of the Damned

So Many Things I'd Like to Try...

And here's how they made it...

Movie poster I made for my graphic design class

P.S. Jared's my Brother

HA!!! Silkscreened Pancakes! Brilliant!!!

Fascinating

Excellent example of the educational potential of multimedia. The world needs more of this please!

Very Cool

Masterpiece 2.0, a social media art project by Baschz and Selfcontrolfreak.

Info:

Masterpiece 2.0 is a social media art project by Baschz and Selfcontrolfreak. It’s the first ever canvas being made with a Web 2.0 approach.

The canvas interacts with its visitors who can affect the proces and final outcome of this masterpiece.

Through actions like Introduce Object, Shirt 'Em and Cameo Appearance you can interact with Selfcontrolfreak, right on the canvas! This will add new animation to the time-lapse movie and get you a one-off hi-res image of one of your animation's frames, created and signed by Baschz.

You can follow the whole process LIVE through the webcam and Twitter feeds.

The final multilayered canvas and documentation of the project are being auctioned, so you can become the owner of this unique painting!

(from http://masterpiece20.com/)

These People Are Some Batsh_t Crazy Mormons! (Thanks Tod!)

A Mormon Perspective on Transhumanism from Mormon Transhumanist Association on Vimeo.

cool

Onwards from AKQA on Vimeo.

Kacie Kinzer's Tweenbots

Artist Statement (nicked from Kacie's terrific site)

"In New York, we are very occupied with getting from one place to another. I wondered: could a human-like object traverse sidewalks and streets along with us, and in so doing, create a narrative about our relationship to space and our willingness to interact with what we find in it? More importantly, how could our actions be seen within a larger context of human connection that emerges from the complexity of the city itself? To answer these questions, I built robots.

Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal.

Given their extreme vulnerability, the vastness of city space, the dangers posed by traffic, suspicion of terrorism, and the possibility that no one would be interested in helping a lost little robot, I initially conceived the Tweenbots as disposable creatures which were more likely to struggle and die in the city than to reach their destination. Because I built them with minimal technology, I had no way of tracking the Tweenbot’s progress, and so I set out on the first test with a video camera hidden in my purse. I placed the Tweenbot down on the sidewalk, and walked far enough away that I would not be observed as the Tweenbot––a smiling 10-inch tall cardboard missionary––bumped along towards his inevitable fate.

The results were unexpected. Over the course of the following months, throughout numerous missions, the Tweenbots were successful in rolling from their start point to their far-away destination assisted only by strangers. Every time the robot got caught under a park bench, ground futilely against a curb, or became trapped in a pothole, some passerby would always rescue it and send it toward its goal. Never once was a Tweenbot lost or damaged. Often, people would ignore the instructions to aim the Tweenbot in the “right” direction, if that direction meant sending the robot into a perilous situation. One man turned the robot back in the direction from which it had just come, saying out loud to the Tweenbot, "You can’t go that way, it’s toward the road.”

The Tweenbot’s unexpected presence in the city created an unfolding narrative that spoke not simply to the vastness of city space and to the journey of a human-assisted robot, but also to the power of a simple technological object to create a complex network powered by human intelligence and asynchronous interactions. But of more interest to me was the fact that this ad-hoc crowdsourcing was driven primarily by human empathy for an anthropomorphized object. The journey the Tweenbots take each time they are released in the city becomes a story of people's willingness to engage with a creature that mirrors human characteristics of vulnerability, of being lost, and of having intention without the means of achieving its goal alone. As each encounter with a helpful pedestrian takes the robot one step closer to attaining its destination, the significance of our random discoveries and individual actions accumulates into a story about a vast space made small by an even smaller robot."

Stolen by J from the Wooster Collective http://woostercollective.com/

As if Star Wars could get any more tragic. BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

AWESOME!!!

Trial Panorama for work: click on shaded areas for more info

Panorama of Library: 1st Floor on CleVR.com